- Feb 9, 2012
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I'm going to be upgrading to a 2600K soon and since this upgrade requires a new motherboard, I'm expecting some driver issues. Is there any way to remove all of my hardware drivers in one go so that Windows just searches for new drivers when I start up with the new hardware? Are there any programs or Windows features that would allow me to do this? Running Windows 8 Consumer Preview right now, so if a feature like this was in Windows 7, it's bound to be somewhere in 8.
Trying to avoid reinstalling Windows just because I'd rather not invest the time required to reinstall all my programs and get all my settings how I like them again (mainly because it took some extensive tweaking to get some programs running how I want in Windows 8) unless I really have to. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal, but I just don't have much time on my hands this quarter. Worst case scenario I guess I could just install fresh and wait until the summer to sort out all the little details since my laptop is really my primary computer at the moment.
Trying to avoid reinstalling Windows just because I'd rather not invest the time required to reinstall all my programs and get all my settings how I like them again (mainly because it took some extensive tweaking to get some programs running how I want in Windows 8) unless I really have to. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal, but I just don't have much time on my hands this quarter. Worst case scenario I guess I could just install fresh and wait until the summer to sort out all the little details since my laptop is really my primary computer at the moment.
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